Pleonasms in Legal English
Pleonasms—the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning—in oral and written forms of English legal jargon often take on a single meaning.
September 24, 2014
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The Legacy of the Linguist
Following on from my last post on the fundamental differences between translation and interpretation, in this entry I shall consider the life span of each, and
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Mexico Heads towards Linguistic Independence
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House Taken Over: Displacing the Machines
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How Do Translation and Interpretation Differ?
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The Fear of the Alien
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What Is a Controlled Natural Language?
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Do You Need a College Degree?
A few months ago, a lovely acquaintance who wants to be an interpreter, asked me whether she needed a college degree to succeed as a
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On Linguistic Landscape
In a previous post we dealt with the issue of multilingualism and the consequences it has in people’s lives. That article made reference to the
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Modifiers, Interrupted
As linguists, our work often times requires translating complex texts that include sentences and structures of all lengths and types. Given that sentence structures are
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